"Adopted" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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义 yì justice / righteousness / meaning / foster (father etc) / adopted / artificial (tooth, limb etc) / relationship / friendship
首尔 Shǒu ěr Seoul, capital of South Korea (Chinese name adopted in 2005 to replace 漢城|汉城[Han4 cheng2])
养女 yǎng nu:3 adopted daughter
养子 yǎng zǐ adopted son / foster son
义子 yì zǐ adopted son
闯王 Chuǎng Wáng Chuangwang or Roaming King, adopted name of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 / (1605-1645)
义女 yì nu:3 adopted daughter
童养媳 tóng yǎng xí child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
嗣子 sì zǐ heir / adopted son
汉姓 Hàn xìng a Han family name (surname) / (esp.) a Han surname adopted by a person of another ethnic group
蒋纬国 Jiǎng Wěi guó Chiang Wei-kuo (1916-1997), adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
干女儿 gān nu:3 ér adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
干儿子 gān ér zi adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
陆克文 Lù Kè wén Chinese name adopted by Kevin Rudd (1957-), Australian politician proficient in Mandarin, prime minister 2007-2010 and 2013
假子 jiǎ zǐ adopted son / stepson
出继 chū jì to become adopted as heir
国家标准中文交换码 guó jiā biāo zhǔn Zhōng wén jiāo huàn mǎ CNS 11643, Chinese character coding adopted in Taiwan, 1986-1992
寄名 jì míng adopted name / to take a name (of one's adoptive family)
物质文明和精神文明 wù zhì wén míng hé jīng shén wén míng material and spiritual culture / matter and mind / material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)
百花齐放，百家争鸣 bǎi huā qí fàng , bǎi jiā zhēng míng a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom) / refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
童养媳妇 tóng yǎng xí fù child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
继子女 jì zǐ nu:3 stepchildren / adopted children
首尔市 Shǒu ěr Shì Seoul Metropolitan City, capital of South Korea (Chinese spelling adopted in 2005)
高德纳 Gāo Dé nà the Chinese name of American computer scientist Donald Knuth (1938-), adopted prior to his visit to China in 1977
卐 wàn swastika, a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, later adopted by Nazi Germany
蒋中正 jiǎng zhōng zhèng Chiang Chung-cheng, adopted name of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4shi2]
消除对妇女歧视委员会通过的一般性建议  General recommendations adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
干儿 gān ér adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
契子 qì zǐ adopted son
北京瘫 Běi jīng tān "Beijing slouch", sitting posture said to be adopted esp. by Beijingers, popularized by 葛優|葛优[Ge3 You1]
贺锦丽 Hè jǐn lì He Jinli, Chinese name adopted by Kamala Harris (1964-), US vice president 2021-
螟蛉 míng líng green rice caterpillar or similar insect larva / adopted son (Etymology: Wasps of a particular species take caterpillars to their nest as food for their offspring, but it was mistakenly believed that the wasps were raising the caterpillars as their own young.)
螟蛉子 míng líng zǐ adopted son
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